Quote: Riderofthepalehorse "It was a shame Shennie moved on, the academy structure looks in real good hands, with Pete Riding and Cummins in partnership if true it sounds a really good further investment of our youth programme.
It’s been done to death, but it’s unsustainable to keep buying players in, especially for clubs like ours, although excellent support base, we seem to be hamstrung because of rent etc at the stadium.
Personally I feel the numerous changes to personnel from players to coaches is all we could of wished for in one season, perhaps a weakness in the back row will be our Achilles heel, but overall considering the amount of work which needed doing as a supporter I’m pretty pleased with our present situation.'"
Our sucess in the 00s was built on developing youth like Cooke, Horne, King and Yeaman and then picking up some unknown gems like Raynor, Dowes and Mcmenemy. Unfortunately we cant add gold dust like Swain, Kearney and Smith anymore due to the gap between SL and NRL, but if we follow that model again we'd be in a much better place.
